Seeing as we have so many new users the past few weeks, let me mention that development of Mastodon and hosting of mastodon.social is not funded by venture capital or ads, but through crowdfunding:
and
https://opencollective.com/mastodon
And for certain tiers of support, your name or your company's logo is listed on our sponsors page:
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http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a0baa3ba: Meine Güte ey. So langsam geht mir das ständige "uns fehlen Experten"-Geheule sowas von auf den Sack.Nein, euch fehlen keine Experten. Das Innenministerium braucht keine Experten. Jedes Mal, wenn das Innenministerium Experten angehört hat in der Vergangenheit, haben sie danach deren Ratschläge ignoriert. Ihr braucht also offensichtlich keine Experten sondern Speichellecker und Jasager. Ihr braucht Leute ohne Moral und Gewissen, die euch ins Gesicht lügen, das...
Yes, of course I want a rotary cell phone.
The power switch is an actual slide switch. No holding down a stupid button to make it turn off and not being sure it really is turning off or what. http://justine-haupt.com/rotarycellphone/
Custom key caps for the C64! - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/keycaps-for-your-commodore-computer
How to derive formula of the SDF of a Line Segment, a common shape in procedural modeling, a great video tutorial by Inigo Quilez: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMltMdi1Wzg
A Rio de Janeiro court has ordered Netflix to take down the 'The First Temptation of Christ' https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/brazilian-judge-orders-netflix-pull-controversial-gay-jesus-film-1268400
James Long talks about CRDTs and how he used them to build a local first app: https://www.dotconferences.com/2019/12/james-long-crdts-for-mortals
Excuse me but "Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg won’t talk to the Guardian. So we fed everything he says into an algorithm, built a Zuckerbot, and interviewed it" has got to be the best take. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/22/zuckerbot-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-botnik
Here is the NYTimes story about ongoing massive location data tracking using smartphones. We all knew that companies are doing this. But I think people didn't imagine how huge the data sets are meanwhile. And neither how huge the potential for abuse is. NYTimes does a nice visualization of the data.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html
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Former Ice Cream Truck driver,
Collects VCRs